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The SOEP based at DIW Berlin is seeking a Post-Doc or Research Associate(full-time or part-time)in the field of empirical labor market economics starting on May 1, 2014.Please see the details and the link to the online application form athttp://www.diw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=diw_01.c.439647.en Deadline for application is March 31, 2014.
13.03.2014
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Press Release
In 2014, the German economy is expected to grow by 1.8 %. Next year, GDP will increase by 2.1 %. The output gap will decline significantly this year, but will only be fully closed in the coming year. Inflation will remain low in this environment.
The upward momentum of the global economy weakened slightly in the final quarter of 2013. However, developed countries were almost able to maintain their ...
12.03.2014
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Press Release
In January 2014, the European Commission proposed a framework for its climate and energy policy up to 2030. It includes targets for reducing greenhouse gases and using renewable energies, but no specific targets for increasing energy efficiency. By 2030, greenhouse gas emissions are to be reduced by 40 percent over 1990 figures. Another element of the proposal is the introduction of a market stability ...
05.03.2014
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Personnel news
Michael Zschille, from September 2009 to August 2013 doctoral student at the DIW Berlin Graduate Center and since September 2013 researcher at the department Firms and Markets, has successfully (summa cum laude) defended his doctoral thesis "Firm Performance and Industry Structure: Nonparametric Efficiency Analysis in the Water Sector" at the Technical University Berlin in February 2014. ...
03.03.2014
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Personnel news
Florian Mölders has successfully (summa cum laude) defended his doctoral thesis "Development, trade agreements and knowledge spillovers - Five empirical essays" at the University of Duisburg-Essen in February 2014. His thesis was supervised by Professor Ansgar Belke, University of Duisburg-Essen and Professor Matthias Busse, Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Since September 2009, Florian ...
03.03.2014
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Personnel news
Michael Weinhardt left the SOEP on January 1, 2014. He is now working as a research associate at the University of Bielefeld on the German contribution to the European Social Survey, which is under the charge of Stefan Liebig. Michael completed his doctoral thesis on “The influence of values on occupational choice and the intergenerational transmission of inequality” and will be defending ...
28.02.2014
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People are investing their life savings in financial products, for instance, to provide for their retirement, and in doing so they are making their future financial situation almost entirely dependent on the success of these investments. The financial sector promotes numerous investment opportunities with widely varying levels of risk - from the classic private pension insurance to high-risk equity ...
26.02.2014
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Press Release
According to current analyses based on the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), the total net assets of German households in 2012 amounted to 6.3 trillion euros. Almost 28 percent of the adult population had no or even negative net worth. On average, individual net worth in 2012 totaled more than 83,000 euros; that is slightly more than ten years previously. The degree of wealth inequality remained virtually ...
26.02.2014
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In 2012, almost five million people, or roughly 10 percent of the labor force in Germany, worked from home most or some of the time. Of these home workers, 2.7 million were employees, i.e., eight percent of the labor force. It is primarily highly qualified employees such as managers, academics, lawyers, publicists, engineers, or teachers who work from home; the majority has a university degree. However, ...
19.02.2014
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Economic Bulletin
by Christian Dreger and Yanqun Zhang in: DIW Economic Bulletin 2/2014.The Chinese model for economic growth is undergoing a fundamental reorientation. While output has been driven by investments and exports in recent decades, private consumption is expected to become a major trigger for future GDP growth. However, the conditions for higher demand from households are far from optimal: the savings rate ...
14.02.2014
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Economic Bulletin
in: DIW Economic Bulletin 2/2014"China's New Course: Strengthening Private Consumption". Five Questions to Christian Dreger
14.02.2014
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Economic Bulletin
by Georg Erber in: DIW Economic Bulletin 2/2014. During the last few years, the People's Republic of China has become an increasingly important trading partner for Germany. Particularly in the wake of the global economic and financial crisis that began in 2008, trade with China has been an important driver of economic growth in Germany as German industry benefited from the increase in Chinese import ...
14.02.2014
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Press Release
Member states of the euro area have been struggling with the legacies of the severe financial and economic crisis for four years now. But debt ratios are still rising. Negative primary balances, low growth, and low inflation do not allow for a recovery similar to the one in the US after the Second World War. Between 1946 and 1953, the US was able to almost halve its debt with no haircuts. The crisis ...
12.02.2014
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The German Science Foundation granted the 2-years project "Parallel imports, innovations, and generics: Competition in the German market for oral anti-diabetics" by Jun. Prof. Annika Herr (DICE) and Prof. Dr. Tomaso Duso (DIW Berlin and DICE). The primary focus of the research proposal is the empirical evaluation of parallel imports' competitive impact in on-patent drug markets. By means ...
10.02.2014
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Press Release
To date, the European Union has been at the forefront of international climate protection. But there are now a number of other countries also pursuing a proactive energy and climate policy. They are increasingly investing in renewable energies, exploiting potential energy efficiencies in industry, buildings and transportation, and contributing to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions through carbon ...
05.02.2014
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Attention: The codebooks are very large. The download may last a long time. DatasetDescription link $PVariables from personal questionnaires codebook_v29_p.pdf (75 MB)$H Variables from household questionnairescodebook_v29_h.pdf (26 MB)$PGENGenerated Person-Level Variablescodebook_v29_pgen.pdf (15 MB)$HGENGenerated Household-Level Variablescodebook_v29_hgen.pdf (7 MB)$PKALGenerated calendar ...
31.01.2014
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In the fall of 2013, DIW Berlin presented a study on minimum wages which was based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel Study for 2011. The data for 2012 have since become available. As expected, in terms of structures for employees with gross hourly earnings of less than 8.50 euros, i.e., those expected to receive the planned minimum wage, little has changed. These include, to an above-average degree, ...
29.01.2014
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Economic Bulletin
by Martin Kroh and Christian Könnecke in: DIW Economic Bulletin 1/2014. People with low incomes and job seekers are less interested and active in politics than people above the at-risk-of-poverty threshold and the working population. Compared to other European democracies, Germany has slightly above-average levels of inequality of political participation. Data from the Socio-Economic Panel Study ...
24.01.2014
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Economic Bulletin
in: DIW Economic Bulletin 1/2014"The Poor and Unemployed Show Less Political Interest". Seven Questions to Martin Kroh
24.01.2014
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Economic Bulletin
by Markus M. Grabka and Jan Goebel in: DIW Economic Bulletin 1/2014. Inequality of disposable incomes in Germany has decreased slightly since its peak in 2005. However, this trend did not continue in 2011. The most important reasons for this were the inequality in market incomes, including capital incomes, which had increased again. Besides this finding, the updated analyses of personal income ...
24.01.2014